Conservation behaviour in human-dominated landscapes

人类对栖息地的改变是造成物种灭绝急剧增加的主要原因，这是过去一个世纪的特征。减少灭绝的速度要求社会扭转人口下降的原因，这往往与栖息地的丧失和破碎化以及与人类的冲突有关。我的研究计划有两个主要目标：(1)确定动物运动的障碍和走廊，这些障碍和走廊决定了破碎景观中动物的渗透率；(2)解决人类与野生动物的冲突，这种冲突有时会导致野生动物被这些景观中的人为特征所吸引。我之所以强调动物运动，是因为它是对个体（例如，寻找食物和配偶）和种群（例如，超种群动态）成功至关重要的几个过程的基础。我越来越多地瞄准人类与野生动物冲突的情况，并试图找到替代野生动物致命管理的行为选择。我的目标是开展创新和严谨的项目，为学生提供优秀的科学培训，同时也为野生动物管理者和景观规划师提供切实可行的信息，他们负责维护人类主导的景观中的生物多样性。

Anthropogenic habitat modification is mainly responsible for the sharp rise in extinctions that characterizes the past century. Reducing the rate of extinction requires that society reverse the reasons for population declines, which have frequently been associated with habitat loss and fragmentation, and conflict with humans. My research program addresses these causes with two main objectives (1) identify the barriers and corridors to animal movement that determine the permeability to animals of fragmented landscapes and (2) address the human-wildlife conflict which sometimes results when wildlife are attracted to anthropogenic features in these landscapes. I emphasize animal movement because it underlies several processes that are essential to the success of both individuals (e.g., finding food and mates) and populations (e.g., metapopulation dynamics). Increasingly, I target situations of active human-wildlife conflict and attempt to find behavioural alternatives to lethal management of wildlife. I aim to conduct innovative and rigorous projects that provide excellent science training for students while also providing tangible, defensible information for wildlife managers and landscape planners who are charged with maintaining biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes.